The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-03-02
Che 9aily Bnllstin,
WEDNESDAY. MAR. 2. 1887.
the HOUSE OF CHESTERFIELD.
A FAMILY THAT HAS NUMBERED
AMONG IT'S MEMBERS MANY
GIFTED AND ILLUsTRI-
Gus MEN.

Chesterfield who wrote the famous
letters to his son, and made his own
name the familiar synonym of grace
and elegance. But the dead Earl
represented not only the nobility of
a great family; he was the titled
representative of a race of illustrious
men, who were distinguished as
statesmen, diplomatists, soldiers,
historians, authors, poets and act
ors.
The wit and grace of the best
known Chesterfield came through his
mother from one of the most dis
tinguished men of the time of Will
liam III. He was George Savile,
Marquis of Halifax, commonly
known in history as Lord Halifax.
Speaking of his death in 1895,
Macaulay says. she was the most
accomplished, the most enlightened,
and in spite of great faults, the
most estimablc of the statesmen who
were formed in the corrupt and
licentious Whitehall of the Restora-
ton" His daughter married the
third Earl of Chesterfield, and their
son was Philip Dormer Stanhope,
whose letters TO his son have made
his name so famous.
The wit and genius of Halifax
did not confine themselves to the
legitimate line of descent, and the
bar sinister was no impeachment to
their rich Inheritance. The accom-
plished statesmen left q natural son,
by name Henry Carey, dramatist
and poet, whose plays are no longer
played, but whose anthem, "God
Save the King" will likely be sung
by millions as long as there are
English people to sing it. And from
this Henry Carey descended, still
with the bar sinister and the genius
of his great ancestor, Edmund
Kean, the famous actor. Here is a
study in heredity and environment.
Chesterfield, in his own language,
sacrificed to the graces;" Carey
yielded to the muses., and Kean was
a thespian votary. And here, too
is study in possibilities. Henry
Carey was the half-brother o.
Chesterlield's mother. Suppose
their escutcheons exchanged. Carey
would have been the Marquis of Hall
fax and might have been great
statesman, but likely enough Eng
llsh hearts would not now throb tt
"God Save the Queen" Edmund
Kean, instead of being remembered
as a great actor, would have been s
respectable peer, forgotten probably
with his death. Chesterfield, doubt
less, would have had the run of the
theatres and the company of the
men of wit, but we would have hat
no code of elegance and politeness
with generosity and morality elimi
mated, such as the gracious Earl ha'
bequeathed to posterity.
But something of credit is due tt
the Stanhope side of the house, o
which Carey and Kean are no parcel
The Stanhopes boast of three peer
ages: Chesterfield, Stanhope ant
Harrington. The Hon. Alexande
Stanhope was younger son of thu
first Earl of Chesterfield, and was I
distinguished diplomatist in abou
Queen Anne's time. His descend
ants were conspicuous in statecraft
literature and war. The Halifa,
blood did not flow in their veins. Al
Earl Stanhope was created. Thu
third Earl married Hester Pitt
daughter of the great Lord Chatham
Their eldest daughter was Lad.
Hester Lucy Stanhope.
We all know "The Burial of ST
John Moore" His deeds deserves
to be remembered, but he has bee
immortalized by verse. AS the her
was dying he turned to Capt. Stan
hope of his staff, and said: "Stan
hope. remember me to your sister.
These were his last words. BY tn
struggling moonbeams' misty light
and with only his martial cloa
around him, they carried the wal
rior to the ramparts. Slowly an
sadly they laid him down, and i
the grave where their hero the
buried, it is supposed they ais
buried the love and expectancy G
Lucy Stanhope. If Halifax gave t
his grandson, Chesterfield, wit an
eloquence, Chatham gave his CRANE
daughter vehemence and storm
passion. The granddaughter {
Chatham, the mistress of the house
hold of her uncle, William Pitt, til
object of the admiration of 81
John Moore, she displayed all til
charming accomplishments that cam
with the Stanhope blood. But whe
misfortunes came, with her uncl
dead and her lover carried, fres
and CORY, from the field of his fam
to his unsepultured grave, the pa'
sion and bitterness of the storm
Chatham fell upon her, and Sd
spurned and turned her back upo
the world she had known.
She wandered about the shores {
the Mediterranean for few years
and then, to get further still frol
civilization, she sought a hon
among the half barbarous tribes {
Mount Lebanon. She adopted I'll
faith, the manners and the garb {
the East, aDd for nearly quartz
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